Why do my Perl tests fail with use encoding 'utf8'?

Question

I\'m puzzled with this test script:

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use encoding \'utf8\';
use Test::More \'no_plan\';

ok(\'áá\' =~ m/á/, \'ok direct matc         


        

Answer 1

It works fine on my computer (on perl 5.10). Maybe you should try replacing that use encoding 'utf8' with use utf8.

What version of perl are you using? I think older versions had bugs with UTF-8 in regexps.